Finnish architectural firm Pirinen & Salo designed a small house on the shores of Lake Porovesi in Finland. The building was created as an imaginary “director’s cabin” – the interiors used techniques from 1980s adventure films, where you could see “mystical” worlds.
The small house is covered with tarred wooden shingles, not only on the roof but also on the walls. The studio is 15 square meters in size. It is located on a gentle slope next to the ruined foundations of an old stone building, and a wooden path leads from it along the shoreline of the lake. The architects wanted the period of construction of this structure to remain a mystery for the viewer, and so they chose to create a sense of mystery and escapism through a play on scale: the huge gable roof, the arched window and the small wooden shingles create intrigue.
"The path to this cabin acts as a transition from the everyday world to the dream and creative work. So we built the architecture as a kind of trick: the cabin seems much larger than it actually is. And this, in turn, makes the surrounding nature and landscape colossal," the studio explains.
A black wooden staircase leads from the stone foundation up to the workspace: a room with a double vaulted ceiling paneled in dark oak. On either side are built-in desks and cabinets in contrasting light oak. The built-ins also include a bookshelf, an audio system and an integrated leather sofa, as well as a black cast iron fireplace. The central part of the structure can be described as a “nave”, and its desks as “side passages”. All technical devices that could give away the real date of the cabin are carefully hidden.
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